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La Scala - Where Passion Thrives
La Scala in Milan is the most famous opera house in the world thanks to its extraordinary history. The revolutionary composer Giuseppe Verdi worked for this theatre for decades; great conductors such as Arturo Toscanini performed here for years, and legendary singers who changed opera, such as Maria Callas, became stars on its stage.
Behind the breathtaking decors and costumes, a complex machine is at work – the sets, sculptures and clothes for the opera and ballet are made in its own factory.
In 2001 the former industrial settlement of the Ansaldo steel plants became the theatre workshops.
They include various departments: stage design, carpentry, stage plastics, costume design and fitting, as well as the wardrobe, which stores almost 60 thousand costumes belonging to over 280 productions from 1911 to the present day.
The workshops are managed by Angelo Sala, a former stage designer who's been with La Scala for nearly forty years.
"This is the biggest workshop in the world for theatre productions. It's the backstage, it's what the public can't see behind the 'beautiful side' of the show. It's what holds the set together – yet never gets to be seen by the audience. It's very spectacular, because you can see all the mechanisms involved; they are not always technologically advanced – in fact, they can be simple ropes pulled by hand. It's stage machinery that very much ressembles eighteenth century machinery."
It's machinery that can create strong emotions and generate great passion on the stage, here in Verdi's Rigoletto.
Leo Nucci is considered the greatest living Rigoletto. At La Scala he's sung a record 160 times.
"La Scala is La Scala, especially for baritones. One can be successful anywhere but if you're not at La Scala, there's a crack that stays in the singer's soul forever.
"I met my wife at La Scala. Just outside, at the tram stop, on the steps of the number one, I asked her: 'so, would you like to marry me or not?' "
After years of crisis, the newly restored Scala is today a thriving theatre, appreciated by the critics and the public. Since 2005 the General Manager is a Frenchman – it's the first time for a non-Italian. He recounts the first difficulties he encountered.
"I'm a Cartesian and I'm French. To understand how to find a balance between creativity, the Italian imagination, while at the same time maybe trying to give them a few more rules, maybe a little bit more rigour, and to mix those two things together – that's what was the most exciting.
"The public has a fusional relationship with this theatre, it's passionate, they consider it to be their theatre, that it's really part of their life – here it's all about passion, that's true."
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Safe haven for kids while parents are in court
Monroe Family Court Children's Center provides support to families in the Hall of Justice
Safe haven for kids while parents are in court Monroe Family Court Children's Center provides support to families in the Hall of Justice Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1bX6bqF
Staff writer Published 10:20 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2013
Gracyn Atkinson, 5, plays with puppets with her sister Rylee, back to camera, 12, while waiting for their mom, Jennifer, in the Children's Center at the Monroe County Hall of Justice.(Photo: TINA MACINTYRE-YEE)
The center takes a maximum of 12 children at a time from ages six weeks to 12
A child%u2019s stay can last 5 minutes or stretch out over a week, depending upon the situation
The center relies heavily on donations
The room is bright, warm and inviting. Two children play with a Wii as others play on toys set up in the room or have a snack at a table.
The doorbell rings, a parent gets buzzed in and a child is gone. Within a matter of minutes several more children have left. Their parent's day in court is done.
Hidden in a corner of the third floor of the Monroe County Hall of Justice is the Children's Center, which provides a safe place for kids whose parents are attending court, said Eileen Whitney, director of the center.
"It's not in the kids' emotional best interest hearing cases," Whitney said.
The Children's Center is part of a statewide system established about 15 years ago by Judge Judith Kaye to create a safe haven for children in the court building while parents attend to a variety of court issues, including matrimonial, adoption and domestic, she said.
A child's stay can last five minutes or stretch out over the course of a week, depending upon the situation, Whitney said. Most children who come in have parents without good support systems.
"Their family support are not there for them so they end up with us so they can focus on their court cases," she said.
Jennifer Atkinson of Churchville recently used the service for her two foster children and four biological children. Atkinson said she started using the center this summer because she has been in court frequently, working on issues surrounding the adoption of one of her foster children. She was initially just bringing her 10-month-old biological son who is breast-fed and won't take a bottle.
"I felt like my options are kind of slim on who's available for the day," she said. "I was a little hesitant because I wasn't sure, partially because there are some kind of rough characters that frequent family court and I wasn't sure about like safety measures as far as are my children going to be safe here.
"But when I saw you had to be buzzed in, buzzed out, the wristband, and then also I checked with some other foster parents who had used it and they had some very, very nice things to say about it."
The free service was once fully funded by a state grant, but now is supplemented by fundraising and the University of Rochester, said Dr. Michael Scharf, chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UR.
Scharf's division oversees the center, which is also a partnership. The two full-time workers are UR employees.
"Part of the mission in the center not only is to provide a safe haven for the kids, to provide a service for the courts but also we hook families up with services in the community that they are entitled to."
Eileen Whitney, director
The center takes a maximum of 12 children at a time from ages six weeks to 12 years and has a first come, first served policy, Whitney said. It also started serving the whole courthouse over the past few years because of the need, said Whitney, adding that from January to October, the program served 3,432 children.
When families use the center, she said an effort is made to "try to have a conversation with them when they come in or when they're leaving" to find out what kind of services they may need, whether it's Head Start, Universal Pre-K, mental health, or health services, to name a few. The majority of families that use the service are at the poverty level.
"Part of the mission in the center not only is to provide a safe haven for the kids, to provide a service for the courts but also we hook families up with services in the community that they are entitled to," Whitney said. Sometimes families don't know there is a service they need that exists, that it's free and will come to them. We "provide what the families need so kids have better outcomes," Whitney said.
In addition, while engaging the children, the center observes them to see if they are developmentally on task and make early intervention referrals as needed, Whitney said. And when they leave the center the children get a book, to help promote literacy.
The center relies heavily on donations. Many toys come from the Pirate Toy Fund, and donated gift cards are used for things like cleaning supplies, Whitney said.
Several years ago Our Lady of Victory/St. Joseph's Church on Pleasant Street partnered with them, Whitney said. They provide snacks and drinks year-long as well as other needed items, said Christine Kimmerly of Gates, volunteer coordinator for the church and also Whitney's sister-in-law. "We provide for the center as much as we can."
About five years ago Kimmerly approached Whitney about a Christmas mission, and starting in September Whitney looks for a family in need.
This year six families will receive a Christmas basket prepared by the church but delivered by Whitney and staff. The families will get food for Christmas dinner and for the week, gifts for the immediate family and toiletries.
"It's sad when you see a family with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree with nothing underneath it," said Kimmerly. "Children need Christmas. People need to show that they love other people, not carry other prejudices. We can't do the whole world, we can do a few of them."
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Home Gossip Former MMA fighter Gina Carano wants Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate's fight to hold off for a bit!!
Former MMA fighter Gina Carano wants Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate's fight to hold off for a bit!!
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MMA (mixed martial artist) fighter Gina Carano wants Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate's fight to hold off for a bit. Ronda Rousey is in the store that the title-holder successfully secures her title in July at UFC 200 vs. Miesha Tate, with Amanda Nunes holding the title. Carano had stopped playing MMA Since August 2009. Rather than Rousey and Tate fight with each other, Gina 34 years older former player might want to see other players fighting with Rousey and Tate.
I think they are all great fights... Just think they could stand to hold off on another Ronda vs Miesha 3 for a bit. https://t.co/HHoQzfXpfa
— Gina Carano (@ginacarano) May 14, 2016
There is also a Holly Holm card sitting out there, as the former champion has lost just once to a tale and holds the only win over Rousey so far. Besting Carano in strikeforce Cyborg was the last person to face her. Gina who is known as actress, fitness model, television personality, and former mixed martial artist. She was born in Dallas, Texas and has a height of 5 feet 8 inches with balanced body weight.
She started her career in the sport of Muay Thai. Her trainer name is Greg Jackson. She also played volleyball and softball in her early life. She was raised by her mother and has two sisters. She has a net worth of $4 million dollars. She was helped lead her basketball team to a state championship in her high school and also appeared on the Oxygen Network's series.
Gina also became the first winner of the Chuck Norris Award for Best Female Action Star. She is not married till date and has no spouse nor any relationship and affair. Carano has sought after a vocation in acting since she resigned from a rivalry. Her film debut in Steven Soderbergh's 2011 activity film Haywire earned a designation for a best on-screen character in that sort at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards. Carano was also a top ten searched athlete on Yahoo! that year. It was also announced that Carano was ranked no. 16 in Maxim's Hot 100 list.
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The Craziest Mission Impossible Stunts Performed by Tom Cruise Himself
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Filmmaking can be a truly entertaining experience, but when it comes to performing risky stunts the things may get really tough and messy, and sometimes even life-threatening. Back in the day, only a handful of actors dared to perform their own stunts. Tom Cruise is definitely one of the boldest and craziest ones.
This guy simply doesn't know his own strength and lives life like there's no tomorrow. From climbing sheer rock-faces, running around skyscraper exteriors, to strapping himself on a sky-bound cargo plane, Tom Cruise's got you covered. Here is a brief overview of the craziest stunts along with the most impressive and dangerous scenes for the Mission Impossible franchise where the Hollywood star just went bonkers.
Cruise's Mission Impossible stunts had been getting more and more insane with each film since the first one was released back in 1996 where he performed a handful of extremely complicated acrobatic moves hanging on wires in the middle of a room like a professional gymnast.
But this was just a five-finger exercise compared to the sequel where he performed some of the most dangerous stunts ever dangling from a vertical cliff and jumping from rock to rock.
Tom Cruise didn't use any safety net for any of these and he actually get injured by tearing his shoulder after a few risky jumps hundreds of feet above the ground. Some extreme bike stunts were also included in the same film.
Mission Impossible 3 directed by J.J. Abrams definitely raised the bar even more with another series full of breath-taking scenes. This time Cruise cracked only a couple of ribs during his stunts. In one particular scene, he was literally an inch away from "a huge disaster" as Abrams explains.
Unlike MI:3 where Tom Cruise jumps off a computer generated building, in Brad Bird's Mission Impossible 4 the actor actually runs down the side of the world's tallest building – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. And he did it with the confidence for which many seasoned professionals might get jealous. I still can remember the churning feeling in my stomach watching the movie in the local IMAX theater. Indeed, it's possibly one of the most spectacular stunts in movie history.
Mission Impossible 5 is now in cinemas and it promises even more insane stunts. From hanging on to the outside of a cargo plane as it takes off and flies around to a jump from a 120-foot ledge, Tom Cruise is again pushing his limits and taking the performance to the next level.
As for the stunts, it's worth mentioning that MI:5 is the first movie in which Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in every single shot and we really don't have a reason to doubt this statement.
What are some of your favorite movie stunts in other films? Share in the comments below.
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George Porter
Ordinary Seaman George Porter
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Son of Enos and Thirza Porter, of Victoria Cove, Newfoundland, Canada.
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The Memorial stands in Belle Vue Park toward the north of the town, beside the main London to Yarmouth road (A12). It commemorates nearly 2,400 men of the Royal Naval Patrol Service who have no grave but the sea. At Lowestoft during the 1939-45 War was the Depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service, which was developed from the pre-war Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section. At the outset of the war the men of this service were mainly the fishermen of the requisitioned trawlers and drifters used on patrol work, but later it included men from all walks of life and various types of small craft. In the spring of 1944 the Royal Naval Patrol Service reached its maximum strength of some 57,000. Between 1942 and 1946 new construction ships and craft manned by the Service totalled 1,637, among them minesweepers of various kinds, corvettes, fuel carriers, motor launches and naval seaplane tenders. Their objective was to maintain wartime patrols and safeguard the coasts of Britain. Hence Lowestoft was chosen as the site for the Memorial to those men of the Royal Naval Patrol Service who have no other grave than the sea. The Memorial consists of a fluted column rising from a circular base 12 metres in diameter, and surmounted by a bronze ship device (Lymphad), the uppermost point of which is over 15 metres from the ground level. Around the circular base are arranged 17 bronze panels that bear the names. They are set in recesses and protected from the weather by a cornice. A Portland stone panel at the front of the Memorial, facing towards the sea, bears the inscription: THESE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVAL PATROL SERVICE DIED IN THE DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND HAVE NO OTHER GRAVE THAN THE SEA. 1939-45. This is flanked on either side by the Naval Crown with wreath and foul anchor.
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As a student, David Campbell was a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Australian National Academy of Music, attended two National Music Camps, was a soloist in the 1999 Encore performance at the Sydney Opera House, and received his Associate and Licentiate performance diplomas with distinction. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rice University in Houston, Texas. During his time in the US he studied with Paul Ellison at the Shepherd School of Music, where he held the William Schiffick Scholarship. He was the runner up in the school's concerto competition and graduated with the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. He also spent two summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Centre, where he studied and played with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
David Campbell returned to Australia in 2003 and worked on a casual basis with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. He was also the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's double bass fellow in 2005, before joining the Orchestra in 2006. He has been a member of the Sydney Omega Ensemble since its founding in 2006, and teaches at Sydney Grammar.
In 2008 David Campbell took part in the string final of the ABC Young Performers Awards, performing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He was a tutor at the Australian Youth Orchestra's Young Symphonists program in 2009 and also tutors at the Riverina Summer School for Strings.


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Buchanan native becomes first-ever BMX freestyle Olympic qualifier
Published 8:49 am Thursday, February 6, 2020
By Beau Brockett Jr.
NILES — In 2019, BMX freestyle cyclist athlete Hannah Roberts dominated world competitions in her sport. Now, she is the first-ever qualifier for the BMX freestyle event, which debuts at the Tokyo Olympics Aug. 2 and 3.
The Buchanan native could become the youngest U.S. cyclist since 1912 and the first teenaged woman internationally to win an Olympic cycling title if she performs well.
Roberts is not letting the pressure of a historic moment get to her, however. If anything, the announcement that she had qualified was a relief.
"I've been working for the last three years since they made the Olympic announcement to qualify for that spot," she said. "To be the first one to be put on the team, especially so early … is like a big stress-reliever."
Roberts was unofficially notified of her qualification by her coaches in November 2019, and an Olympic committee officially announced her qualification Tuesday.
Most BMX freestyle athletes will not know whether they officially have qualified until June. Roberts found out earlier because she swept the first-place spot at three world cup events and one world championship in 2019. The Olympic BMX freestyle scoring system indicated that Roberts clinched a spot due to her high point scores with two 2020 world events left for athletes.
In BMX freestyle events, athletes spend 60 seconds performing tricks on their bikes on different obstacles in various venues. The 2020 Olympics' venue will be a park setting.
With a three-year dream complete, Roberts said she will focus on two objectives that may be on a smaller scale than the Olympics but have ramifications just as large.
First is to help Paris Benegas become the second U.S. woman to qualify for BMX freestyle.
The 24-year-old California native placed third in the first world cup of 2019, then followed up with second-place finishes at the remaining world cups and the 2019 world championship.
Benegas' and Roberts' scores have helped the U.S. team place about 6,000 points ahead of second-place Australia. Meanwhile, the U.S.' men's team are duking out a much closer matchup with their competition from down under.
Under BMX freestyle's inaugural rules, nine men and nine women will compete in Tokyo, with no more than two per gender being from one national team.
Roberts said she would love to have Benegas, her good friend and teammate, become another qualifier, and Roberts said she is confidant Benegas can do it.
Benegas has beaten Roberts before. They became friends through their mutual competitions, later both moving to Holly Springs, North Carolina to train with coaches and other Olympic cyclist hopefuls.
"To ride with the pros that have the Olympics on their mind was something I needed last year," Roberts said, who moved away from Buchanan after graduating high school in 2019.
Holly Springs is where Roberts' second objective can be realized. She wants to keep hitting the BMX courses and the fitness center hard.
Roberts said she starts her typical day at 6 a.m., when she loosens up on a stationary bike for 30 minutes. After a few hours of riding with her teammates, she goes back to the gym.
There, she works on her endurance — she said much of her strength has been developed by riding and competing. She will often complete interval training on ellipticals, stationary bikes and rowing machines.
Some of her favorite moments at Holly Springs, however, are working with younger BMX riders, helping them develop their skills.
"Getting that experience and that opportunity to just help other people in the sport is my favorite thing," she said.
Roberts is doing a similar activity during her short time currently in Buchanan. While she sat in Union Coffee House in Buchanan, old friends texted her, asking if she wanted to ride with them.
Spending time with family and friends during competition is what Roberts has appreciated most over the past three years.
During the 2019 world championship, her mother flew to China to see her ride and eventually win.
"To experience that win with her was unlike anything else. I had my mom there, and all my teammates, and all my coaches," she said. "I think that was highlight. That was my goal for 2019, and just to see all the hard work come together and have everyone there was awesome."
Whether in a crowd of thousands in Japan or from a TV screen in Buchanan, Roberts' friends and family will be able to see Roberts' hard work come together again soon.
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Dodgers Poll: Fans Uncertain For A Reunion With Trea Turner
Ryan Menzie12/03/2022
The talks with the Phillies continue to heat up for Trea Turner and signs are pointing towards Turner at least finding a new team for 2022. The value Turner brought to the lineup on a daily basis for the Dodgers can't be understated, but the free agent shortstop is ready to get paid top dollar on the open market.
Whether the Dodgers are willing to match what Turner is looking for remains a mystery but with no official signing yet it seems likely the team has at least been engaging with the All-Star shortstop. The accolades speak for themselves as Turner earned his second All-Star berth, his first career Silver Slugger award, and even garnered some MVP consideration following his second season with the team.
Turner was a huge catalyst for such a successful regular season team, but is this enough for Dodgers fans to want to bring Turner back? It may seem obvious that a talent of Turner's caliber belongs on the Dodgers, but fans remain split on bringing him back.
Are you ok with the Dodgers most likely not re-signing Trea Turner?
— Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) November 30, 2022
This of course may have nothing to do with what Turner brings to the team. Turner was one of the most consistent baseball players in the league last season appearing in 160 games, the second time in his career appearing in at least that many games.
Perhaps fans are ready to move on and don't want to see the Dodgers pay a huge chunk of their payroll and lock in Turner for years to come when they can be looking at cheaper options in the market. With a cheaper contract, the Dodgers can then shift their focus to other positions of need including pitcher and centerfield.
The other options may be cheaper, but it will be hard to imagine a player replacing someone of Turner's caliber. What do you want to see the Dodgers do?
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Gj says:
On the other hand Turner was vastly underpaid during the time he played with the Dodgers. That didn't seem to bother management at all.
Anthony W. Gubler says:
If its not broken, don't try to fix it. We won 111 games and just had a glitch in the playoffs. We were and can still be the best team in Baseball. Don't let a glitch last year, get you to erase what we had and start a new. Maybe change strategies in the postseason and adjust the pitching staff as needed, but don't mess with the infield.
SHAKA808U says:
Keep THE BIG THREE together, until Freddie's contract ends. Need some stability at the top of the order, where they all understand their roles in the lineup. Trea's a 5-tool talent with minimum injuries which his body will not degrade as rapidly compared to others. Just watching him play is worth the money, like Mookie. Elite Athletes.
If the FO let's Trea Turner go, and signs Judge they need to have their heads examined!
A good healthy team is one that is a balance of young and experienced. Keep the infield. Bring in some younger players and give them more playing time so your veterans don't get burned out at the end of season. We need a shut down closer and have to fix the outfield
Warren Danforth says:
The Dodgers need to sign Trea and shore up that shortstop spot. Friedman should have signed/extended Trea before the season ended. They absolutely cannot put Gavin Lux in at SS. I think the best Lux could hope for is as a utility player. He's just too inconsistent in the infield (spelled error prone) and also pretty inconsistent hitting. If the Dodgers will not or can not bring back Justin Turner then they need a replacement at 3rd base and I don't think that should be Max Muncy. I'm not sure where they should put Max. Is he a better 2nd or 3rd baseman???
Bob Wesley says:
If fans don't care about having Turner back they are dumb. It makes no sense. We may not keep him, but losing him will be a big loss.
Bob Philippi says:
RE-SIGN AND PAY HIM WHAT HE'S WORTH!!!!!!
As we have read with Freddie Freeman signing an agent has a lot to do with possibly where a player signs. So of course the Dodgers obviously want Trea Turner back and I'm sure will offer him a huge contract but it just always isn't enough to get it done.
Josh Bauman says:
Shortstop is one of the positions where a team will sacrifice offense for great defense. Trea Turner brings decent defense with extreme speed, high batting average, consistent power, and good clubhouse and public demeanor. He is one of the rarest baseball talents in the sport. His spot in the lineup protects Betts and Freeman and improves the overall offensive potential. Losing him to free agency will instantly demote the Dodgers to being just another team. They need to realize that if they want to keep Mookie and Freddie and the rest of the team focused on winning, they have to re-sign Trea and find a few important pieces in pitching, and some other places. Bellinger's weak hitting can be excused if some other consistent players can break into the lineup. I don't see Muncy as a real replacement for Justin Turner at third, but Justin can't hold down an everyday role. Gavin Lux has neither the offense nor the defense to replace Trea Turner. He's a good player, and was the best hitting 9th place batter in baseball, but he isn't going to hit 300, 25hrs, beat out infield hits, steal bases, all while anchoring down the infield.
Alan Schackman says:
The quality and class of a player like Trea Turner is invaluable to any clubhouse. Calm consistency and a beautiful game to watch with Trea. I hope we keep him in the Dodgers family.
Terry Gates says:
Please re-sign Trae, he's reliable for hits!
Jim Devlin says:
We want Trea. We want Trea.
Keep the dodger going says:
A top hitter in the league with speed you can't let that go … Resign trea
Greg Errett says:
Sign Trea now and don't let him get away. Mookie, Trea and Freddie at the top of our lineup for 5-6 more years brings stability and consistent hitting and defense. Trea is at least as good as Mookie and worth a similar contract. With Muncy at 3rd and Lux at 2nd and Smith behind the plate, that is a solid lineup we must keep. Sign JT as well for DH and 3rd base. Chris Taylor is already signed and is the perfect utility guy but could start in LF. Austin Barnes is a terrific backup catcher. That is nine very good players. To me, the only unknown is CF. I would love to have Cody come back, work on his swing, and get back to being the everyday CF.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 80
Thu, January 22, 2015 | Posted by
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the Episode 80 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Eric Lampland on justifying a network with indirect cost savings. Listen to this episode here.
Eric Lampland: But the overall impact, when you look at the economic development is much greater than the narrow metrics that we use to determine whether or not the network itself can be successful.
Lisa Gonzalez: Hi there. This is the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. I'm Lisa Gonzalez.
This week, a special guest stopped our offices in Minneapolis for our podcast conversation, Eric Lampland. He's Founder and Principal Consultant for Lookout Point Communications. Eric has worked with numerous entities, both public and private, looking for ways to improve connectivity. We discussed benefits that often accompany municipal networks but don't always find their way into a feasibility study or business analysis. Over the years, Eric has documented many examples of ancillary benefits, both economic and otherwise. His work emphasizes the need to consider a broader approach when assessing pros and cons related to assessing municipal networks.
Chris Mitchell: Welcome to another edition of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. This is a special edition. We're all in one room. I'm Chris Mitchell. We got Lisa Gonzalez.
Lisa: Hey there.
Chris: And joining us today is Eric Lampland, the Founder and Principal Consultant for Lookout Point Communications.
Eric Lampland: Good afternoon.
Chris: Eric has a long history of building these networks. You've done it both with large enterprise customers and with communities, helping them to build networks. And you and I, in fact, worked together in Prior Lake, on a subcommittee. And so we have a lot of familiarity working with each other. And for listeners out there, you should know that the fact that I know the difference between GPON and active Ethernet is entirely due to this guy right here, Eric, who provided a lot of tutoring over the years. And so it's been very helpful, and we would not have muninetworks.org the way it is without your input over the years. So, thank you for that.
Lisa: Yay!!
Eric: Thank you.
Chris: So, the reason I wanted to invite you in today was because we were talking, and you mentioned that you had come to this realization when you were looking at the numbers of Prior Lake, a suburb of Minneapolis. Just what was happening there?
Eric: Well, in Prior Lake, we were doing a feasibility study. And the intention of the feasibility study was, like most municipalities, to determine whether or not it was realistic to build a municipal network. And in that discussion, one of the concerns was economic development. And so the real question was, well, what was economic development -- what we were looking at. And there were a number of aspects that were important to Prior Lake. One was incubators, the growth of companies coming to town. And one was, what was the actual dollar impact to the city? It was in that area that we looked at cost savings to the citizens.
Chris: Right. And so, a lot of communities, they look at these networks, and their question is, if I build a network, can I get enough customers, that will generate enough revenue to allow me to pay off my operating costs and pay off the debt from building the citywide network. And it sounds like you're starting to think, maybe that's too narrow of a way of looking at it.
Eric: That's correct. You know, I mean, the way you phrase it is exactly what we do, over and over -- and we've done it for over 150 cities now. And so, those cities look at it in that businesslike manner. But the overall impact, when you look at economic development, is much greater than the narrow metrics that we use to determine whether or not the network itself can be successful.
Chris: OK. So, let's talk very specifically. If a city's not going to justify building a network because it's not going to get enough money back for selling services, what WILL justify building that network, that fiber optic network that's going to be super-advanced? It's going to offer the fastest speeds available. It's probably going to lower prices. It's going to be far more reliable. It's going to have all these benefits. But which of them justify building the network specifically?
Eric: Well, there's been a long conversation about what are the ancillary impacts in building networks. You know, as we talked about first, it's simply revenues against costs, and the capital expense initially, and the operational expense on a year-to-year basis. And that's fine, if you're looking at it from a business case perspective. But when you're looking at from the fact that these governments are really doing this out of concern for their citizens, then what is that concern? And one of those areas is, well, what is, in fact, the expense that the citizens are carrying for paying for the services that we all today find absolutely necessary in life?
Chris: What kind of economic impacts did you find when you were looking at how a fiber network would change things in Prior Lake?
Eric: Well, beyond the normal economic development issues, like some company coming to town -- which is hard to forecast, because at the time you're doing the study, you don't have that actual data -- we looked specifically at what were the cost savings to the citizens. And so, in this particular study -- in the Prior Lake study -- we used a factor that came out of a 2003 GAO study, that indicated ...
Chris: General Accountability Office -- for those who are not government geeks like us.
Eric: Very good. General Accountability Office. ... had done a study in 2003. 2003, it's important to recognize that that's prior to the building of most fiber-to-the-home networks in the nation. So you're looking at competition at a very poor level at that time. And yet, there, we were seeing that in those towns, with that kind of competition, there was about a 15 percent reduction in the cost of services to the citizens. So we took the simple [figure] of 15 percent, and we applied it against that population, and realized that in the first five-year period of time, we would return to the citizens of Prior Lake a number about $4 million greater than the capital expense of building the network -- totally beyond the matrix of questions that deal with the business case.
Chris: So, what you're saying is that regardless of whether citizens of Prior Lake -- regardless of whether a household decides to stay with their preexisting provider or whether they go with the city's provided network, they're going to be paying less for services than they had been. That's going to be money that's going to be sticking around in their pocket. And over five years -- you're saying already -- that amount of money, that people are not spending, is far in excess of what is spent to build the network.
Eric: Right. And I should be a little bit careful about the math here. The money that we came forward with -- $4 million in excess of capital expense, OK? -- was actually the savings only experienced by the subscribers that applied to the city itself. And yet, your point's well taken. Because, in looking back at these various cities, the prices from the carriers go down 15 percent too. So that we could add those customers to it, and we could get a much larger number.
Chris: Right. It's something that we talked about in our discussion with Dean Curtis from Iowa, at one point. And he likened it to the amount of money that they saved every year is like an armored truck just dropping bundles of cash every year, you know, on Main Street, and people being able to come and pick it up. Because that's money in people's pockets that is there. It's real money. And they tend to spend that money in local restaurants, and entertainment, and things like that. It's not that -- you know, people aren't necessarily going to notice. It's like those little stimulus that governments sometimes does, where it's ten bucks a paycheck. But it adds up.
Eric: It very definitely adds up. If you take a look at most of the carrier financial reports, you'll find that what we call the average return, or the revenue from a given user, ...
Chris: ARPU!
Eric: Yeah. ARPU. Good old ARPU.
Chris: Average Revenue Per User.
Eric: Very good.
Chris: You find it in every feasibility study. Yup.
Eric: If you look at, you know, Comcast or Charter, or the large cable companies, you'll note that their ARPU is running about $150 a month. And, naturally, that varies with where in the country and a whole series of other factors. But across their entire base, if that's the average, that's a pretty good number to use. And so if you do the math on that, and you just assume their $150 per month, and you take 15 percent of that, you get a number something in the area of about $22.50 a month. Or, you know, round it up to $25, making it easy, or round it down to $20, and be a little kinder to them. You're looking at a dollar savings for any given household that probably approximates something in the area of $300 a year. Over a five-year period of time, that's $1500, which is well in excess of the cost of typically driving by.
But when we looked at this in Prior Lake, I started to begin looking at it in other communities that we had been servicing. And -- where we actually had numbers about what the impact of competition was. So, some of our customers are public utilities that have been on the verge of migrating from hybrid fiber coax networks to fiber-to-the-home networks. And in those cases, we actually have some real numbers that they have actually experienced. And it's not uncommon to find a number that says that outside the template of competition -- of the competitive area -- that prices are 40 percent higher. So, when you start looking at 40 percent savings, you're talking about substantial kind of monies, not only the $10 a month that disappears on somebody but actual, real cash, that they can recognize. And those kinds of numbers are not normally included in feasibility studies.
Chris: Right. Well, I think elected officials are often reluctant to say, hey everyone, let's talk on the level. We're going to build a network, and this network, it's going to be close to breaking even. We're not sure if it's going to pay for itself in the first five years or not. But what we know for sure is that even if it costs you a few hundred thousand dollars in money from the general fund -- or a few million dollars in money from the general fund, as in the case of Monticello, which has had to struggle against this really predatory competition -- predatory pricing, which should be illegal under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but we don't believe in anti-monopoly laws anymore, since Reagan.
But if you look at those kind of subsidies that some cities have put into networks, which is pretty rare in my experience, nonetheless the community is still coming out ahead, in many of those cases, because, even if your taxes go up one dollar or two dollars, your savings on your telecommunications bill are ten or 20 dollars.
Eric: That's correct. And, in fact, you know, it's sort of an interesting thing to sit back and think about a politician going to his populus and saying, we are going to support a fiber-to-the-home network here, for our local citizens; and the benefit to you, as a local citizen, is a "tax break" of $30 a month. [laughs] But that's really what happens.
Chris: On the other hand, if Comcast is sitting in this room, they're going apoplectic. And they're saying, oh my God, this is crazy. You're going to ruin free enterprise. We're going to go out of business because this is unfair competition.
Eric: There are old stories that seem to keep coming around all the time. Whenever you threaten a major carrier, it's either that we're going to lose money, or that we're going to put them out of business. And, quite frankly, they've been doing fine for a long period of time. If you look at the price reductions that they give to any new client, to induce them in, it's usually well in excess of this 15 percent that we've been talking about. If you looked at their total profit stream -- in the multi billions of dollars -- and you were to look at the contributions that that would make to local economies, you would be talking in the hundreds of millions of dollars in actual savings.
Chris: Still leaving them with billions of dollars in profit.
Eric: Yes. Indeed. They'll do fine, OK?
Chris: You know, there's -- the other thing that I'd like to bring up in that situation is just to remind people that these cable networks, the telephone networks, they were built in an era of monopoly. They were built -- they have unfair advantages that go forward to today, because they had the advantage of not having to worry about competition. And so I don't think it's unfair, for a community that is struggling and does not have the Internet access it needs to have good jobs and a good quality of life, if they decide that this is how they want to justify building this essential infrastructure, then I think that should be their choice to make.
Eric: I tend to agree with that. And I think that when we look at the changing of business models in this space, it shouldn't be any different than how we've looked at the changing of business models that have been impacted by the Internet and by the growth of technology over the last number of years. There aren't too many tears out there, that I know of, for the fact that we've lost analog film. And Kodak had some problems. But who was the crier on that? So, there are a number of businesses that have been affected by the technology change that has transpired over the last 20 years. And good businesses -- good, competitive businesses -- modify their business models and continue to compete well. In the case of telephone and cable companies, we haven't seen much modification.
Chris: Oh, I think they've modified my bill just about every year.
[laughter]
Eric: On the increase -- the average increase since 1995, the average yearly increase of the price of video services in the cable industry is 6.1 percent per year, OK?
Chris: And I know that you can't tell me what that is in Internet, because the fricking FCC has decided not to track it!
Eric: [laughs] Well, we haven't had that same ...
Chris: Unfortunately -- no, I mean, this is essential data that our government is not collecting.
Eric: I agree.
Chris: I'm sorry, I cut you off.
Eric: No, that's fine.
Chris: Six percent increases ...
Eric: Well, it's 6.1 percent on a compounded average increase. But, to put that in perspective, inflation over that same period of time has been 2.4 percent. So the increase in pricing in cable is two and a half times what we experience as the normal increase in price costs. So -- and that is now going to primarily six companies. But since the 1996 Telephone Act, there has been significant consolidation in the cable markets themselves. And in the telephone markets themselves. If you recall, back in the '90s, we had, you know, 22 different operating companies that were telephone companies; we're now down to three major ones. We had a similar situation in the cable market. And we're now down to Comcast being the large player, and ....
Chris: Until Time Warner Cable and Charter combine, and then maybe they'll be the large player. But... Yeah. There's no hope for any deconsolidation. Everything's getting more consolidated.
Eric: That's correct. That's correct. And even -- and when you look at the actual delivery of services, that, you know -- measuring them on -- in terms of dollars -- is certainly one metric that you can use. But when you measure them in terms of the actual delivery of services, these consolidations have had significant impacts.
Lisa: Eric, you were talking about all of these benefits to the community. And this is one of the things that we often struggle with, is how to measure them, and portray them to communities. So if a community is considering building a network, other than just telling them these are the benefits, how do you measure them?
Eric: That is an excellent question. And many people have struggled with an answer to that. We struggled with how to deal with the utility value that accrues from things that aren't normally traded in dollars. Like what is the value of a teacher's commitment to his profession, or her profession, beyond the salary? And so, there are all these different soft, if you will, kinds of pieces. The one that we initiated today, where you say that the normal rate of decrease in your average monthly cost is 15 or 40 percent, is a measurable number. And it's something that you can find in the actual experience of communities. And it's a number that you can actually tally up and say, well, this is the value of it.
The values that you get into that are more subjective, like what is the benefit to education of having all students connected to high-speed video servers at the school, at no cost to the family, but actually is just part of the citizens' value within that network. Those are much harder to assess.
Chris: What you're saying is actually -- just to really put a pin in it -- is that when you build a network with these justifications, you can connect every last home, so that a family that doesn't pay for any services may still be able to connect to the school.
Eric: Absolutely. We did a particular feasibility study for a town. And we costed out for them the difference between connecting only those people who had signed up as subscriptions and using the fact that we had deployment teams in the field at the beginning of the network to connect EVERY house going by. And we found that the difference in cost was significantly low in comparison to what we anticipated. But there's a ....
Chris: So you're saying it cost a little bit more up front, but there's a lot of savings down the road that justified that.
Eric: Yeah.
Chris: And you're saying that the delta, in terms of how much more it cost up front, was not quite as much as you expected.
Eric: Exactly. Exactly.
Chris: Do you look at the benefits to a community of making sure that everyone has access to this technology? And it's hard to put a number on some of that. But I think it's important. And I think the main goal of this discussion was to look at a more holistic way of understanding the benefits of building a network, and why, if a city decides that it would be OK that the network not be able to pay for itself for a very long time, or, in some cases, forever, directly. I mean, our streets don't pay for themselves, and they're still incredibly worth the investment that we put into them from the general fund.
Eric: I'll share with you that in most of the communities that we have looked at, and in by far the vast majority of communities that have actually implemented fiber-to-the-home, their services do pay for themselves. So it's not normally a question of, does the government need to subsidize these services? No. They normally pay for themselves over a period of time, and so forth. But when you look beyond that, and you look at the economic impact to the community, we've talked about the cost that is actually gone back into citizens' pockets, that doesn't normally get captured. But we also don't talk about the fact that the Internet has enabled people to build their own businesses. And if you have fiber-to-the-home, you can do that. There are a lot of aspects to it. But -- benefits to the community -- I recently just examined a new operating system back end that does network management for open access networks. Very, very, very capable product. But one of the interesting little pieces that they do in that particular open access solution is to do what they call "land parties." So, this would be the notion of you and I being able to make a connection at will, any time we wanted to, your house to my house, and being able to conduct whatever we were going to conduct....
Chris: Which we could do right now through Comcast. But, presumably, in order for me to connect to you -- a mile, mile and a half, down the street -- it's going to send my signal all the way through Comcast's network. God knows how far, on to the east coast or the west coast or Kansas City or whatever. And then it's going to come back. This is something, I'm guessing, is going to be considerably less convoluted and give us better pings.
Eric: When I heard that, it was described in that particular fashion. And the thing that leapt to my mind immediately is, how wonderful it would be for students in a given classroom in a school to create a multi-party network where they could collaborate in the evenings with all of the rest of the students in the school over a school project. You know, that's a benefit to education that isn't caught in any feasibility study.
Chris: Right. And to some extent, one could do sort of a poor man's version of that over a cable network. But there's a few things that would be enabled by a community-owned fiber network. One is the technology -- the fiber. And, two, I think, is what you're getting at, is a willingness to explore these kinds of things, because it's for a common good, not just because it would generate more revenue.
Eric: Yes. It would be -- it is for that common good that I'm talking about, which is the value back to the community of being able to do something like that. You could set these things up, and this is a benefit to the community. OK? If it's a community network. But in the event that it's a provider who needs to make revenue off of basically anything and everything we do, ...
Chris: Wants to. Let's not say "needs to." We've already discussed the kinds of profits they're sucking out.
Eric: All right. Wants to. Wants to. Fair enough.
Chris: Well, this has been terrific. Thank you so much for coming in, Eric. I hope it's the first of many discussions.
Eric: Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Lisa.
Lisa: My pleasure.
Be sure to visit lookoutpt.com for more on Eric's work and his company. We hope to talk to him again soon, because in the course of the conversation, we touched on numerous topics for another interview.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 120: Responding to Crazy Talk
This is where the profit motive fails society -- there's no real financial incentive to provide coverage for someplace like Gilboa, New York, so therefore it isn't covered. But there is an incentive to prevent anyone else -- including the small town itself or, heaven forbid, the entire county -- from providing services to Gilboa because a David may grow up with the potential of killing Goliath.
Government does have an interest in seeing Gilboa, New York get access to broadband Internet coverage, because that would mean more employment opportunities, better educational facilities, and even more self-employment. In other words, like roads, sewage and utilities, broadband infrastructure is necessary to economic development.


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11 Reasons Why You Should Move To Ottawa Over Any Other City
And above all other reasons... we're the capital.
When you meet someone who has just recently moved to Ottawa, a huge part of you wants to ask them 'Why?' Ottawa may not have a song that's written about our city by a famous rapper, or have a cool nickname like Toronto does but we do have other major reasons of why people move here.
Ottawans are proud to call this beautiful city our home, even if we don't admit it very often. If you can't think of reasons why someone would move here, I'm going to provide you with 11 of the endless reasons why someone should.
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1. We have the cutest market in the world.
Not statistically speaking, but the ByWard Market is where it's at in Ottawa.
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2. You'll never be stuck anywhere.
With the OC Transpo running almost 24/7 all over the city, you'll always be able to find your way back home.
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3. We have amazing nature surrounding our city.
It's so nice to get out of the city and into nature, which is why we're lucky to have Gatineau Hills so close to Ottawa.
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4. We're all treated equally here.
Really, the way we treat people in Ottawa is the way the rest of the world should be treated #proud
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5. According to a nation-wide poll, Ottawa is Canada's safest city.
We don't doubt it, and it makes you feel safe living here just know that that statement is true.
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6. We're very big on culture here.
Little Italy, China Town, all the cultural festivals–you name it, we got it.
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7. We're the shawarma capital of the world. Not kidding.
If you've never tried shawarma, that's the real reason to move to Ottawa. Shawarma capital, shawarma city–whatever you want to call us, it applies. The shawarma phenomenon is so big here that someone made a 30-minute documentary on why it's so popular in Ottawa.
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8. We love our country.
And we make sure everyone else does as well. Since we are the capital, Ottawa loves to make maple everything while of course, putting Trudeau's face on it.
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9. We like routine here in Ottawa.
However when something new opens up, we need to check it out. We're a very dedicated city, but get so excited about revamps/the opening of new stores and/or restaurants. It almost brings the city together–but let's not talk about the Chateau Laurier reconstruction.
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10. It's pretty easy to make friends here.
Since everybody seems to know everyone, you can make friends just by being friends with one person. You can definitely find a good squad, team, etc. here in the capital. But be open minded, the weirder people are usually the coolest.
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11. We may love our Tim Hortons, but the cute cafés we have are where it's at.
You can fight it all you want, but Ottawa's café business is growing at a rapid pace and it's amazing. They're all so different, and give Ottawa the big city vibe it needs. They're all very aesthetically pleasing as well and if you don't believe me, read more here.
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CES 2008 Preview: Emerging Technology
Emerging technology will be all over the show floor. Not all of it will make it to the retail floor, but sometimes, the most exciting technology never does.
By Dan Costa
December 20, 2007 2:57PM EST
The Consumer Electronics Show is the most important show of the year for a whole host of industries, ranging from PC vendors to digital camera manufacturers to after-market automotive accessory dealers. In this target-rich environment, innovation and emerging technology are literally all over the show floor. Not all of this stuff will make it to the retail floor, but sometimes, the most exciting technology never does. Here are some of the trends I see shaping up so far.
One of the big themes of last year's CES was how to move video throughout the home. The question is similar this year, though now vendors are trying to figure out how to move high-definition video. Although Apple proved you can use 802.11g to move basic video, hi-def requires a lot more bandwidth. The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) will show its own multi-room HD networking solution that uses one wire and one remote to connect an array of HD sources and TVs. I expect to see new products from SlingBox, a leader in this market, as well.
One thing that will be less apparent at CES is speakers. HDTV manufacturers will be showing models with no visible built-in speakers, saving room for valuable screen space. PC vendors are also adopting this speaker-less look. The Gateway One all-in-one PC[[Link 216922]] uses NXT's Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) and the Audio Full Range (AFR) loudspeaker to completely conceal its built-in speakers. This technology could find itself built into all sorts of CE devices, from phones to computer monitors.
The disappearing act will continue with the so-called "wireless HDTVs." You will still need to plug in a power cord, but several manufacturers are planning on showcasing HDTVs that don't have any other wires. All of the A/V inputs will be sent over 802.11n. Wireless HD sets should ship in mid-2008.
Look for exciting developments in the field of Near Field Communications (NFCs). Every major credit card company is moving away from the magnetic swipe and towards NFCs. In fact, many of us already have NFC chips inside our credit cards, even if adoption is still limited. INSIDE Contactless builds the chips that go inside these cards, and the company will be meeting with vendors and revealing the progress of the countless trials that are underway with NFCs at CES. Cell phone manufacturers have been eyeing the NFC market for a while as a way to move into the mobile commerce arena. Nokia is doing trials in NYC right now. Although handset vendors have been very quiet about their CES plans, I expect we might see some new announcements in this space at the show.
The iPhone showed just how gaga people could go over touch-screen technology. At CES, I expect to see enhanced touch screens incorporated into all sorts of devices—from refrigerators to remote controls. Synaptics' technology is used in a variety of devices, including the LG Prada phone, Samsung YEPP, Microsoft Zune, LG Chocolate and Logitech MX Air mouse. Last year, Synaptics showed the Onyx concept phone, a no-button integrated device. This year the company promises to bring this technology to "couch potatoes." I see a remote control coming.
In fact, CES will be filled with new remote controls. The Irvine, CA-based Ricavision will use CES to launch the VAVE100, a universal remote control that blends infrared technology, Bluetooth, and Microsoft's SideShow. The company claims the device can manage digital movies, music, e-mail and more through Vista Media Center, as well as connect to as many as 20 different CE devices. Now if only they can make it easy to program. That would be a truly amazing innovation.
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France Seizes Jet at Takeoff After Ryanair Doesn't Pay Bill
The passengers were put on another flight and arrived at their destination 5 hours late
By Angela Charlton and Carlo Piovano
Published Nov 9, 2018 at 7:27 PM
A Ryanair plane sits on the tarmac at the Bordeaux-Merignac airport in southwestern France, after being impounded by French authorities, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Storms, strikes, computer failures _ you can now add "your plane has been seized by the government" to the list of things that can delay your flight.
Storms, strikes, computer failures — you can now add "your plane has been seized by the government" to the list of things that can delay your flight.
In France, 149 passengers were preparing to take off for London late Thursday when French authorities ordered their Ryanair Boeing 737 impounded.
The budget carrier owed money and it was "regrettable that the state was forced" to evacuate the plane, the civil aviation authority said.
The passengers had gone through passport control and security and were about to walk on the tarmac to board the plane when airport authorities told them to turn around, passenger Boris Hejblum said.
"The airport staff told us there was an issue with the plane," he told The Associated Press in an email.
No Ryanair staff members were available, and the only communication from the airline was two text messages saying simply that the departure was delayed, and a 5-euro ($5.75) voucher for food — "less than what a sandwich cost at the airport café," the 30-year-old Frenchman said.
"I found it strange that the police were the only ones giving us information," he said.
The passengers were put on another flight that finally brought them to London's Stansted airport — five hours late.
The multi-million dollar jet, meanwhile, was released only Friday after Ryanair paid a bill of 525,000 euros ($610,000).
The scene unfolded at the Bordeaux-Merignac airport in western France, where authorities say the airline was ordered to pay back funds that the European Union had declared to be illegal subsidies. Ryanair did not publicly comment on the seizure.
French aviation agency spokesman Eric Heraud said regional authorities who originally gave the subsidies had been trying since 2014 to recover the money, and sent its final legal warning in May. After six months without a response from Ryanair, it decided to act Friday.
The standoff with French authorities will not help Ryanair, which more than most carriers, has come to symbolize budget airlines' relentless focus on the bottom line at the cost of customer service.
Ryanair has become Europe's largest airline by number of passengers by persistently offering some of the cheapest fares available. That ensures its planes are packed.
It then makes extra money with add-on fares. Besides charging for seating choice and food — now standard practice on budget flights the world over — it also has travelers pay for any carry-on bag that's larger than a purse.
It manages to keep its costs down by flying to out of the way airports at odd hours to get cheaper airport slots.
Its CEO, Michael O'Leary, personifies the airline's brash approach, sparring with unions and EU authorities. And despite conceding in 2013 that "we should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off," the airline retains its reputation as something to be endured for the sake of flying cheaply around Europe.
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"I would say we just took it as another Ryanair problem, having no information from them," Hejblum said of Thursday's incident. "When we found out about the seizure, I would say the general sentiment was to blame Ryanair for not complying with the law."


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Q: Is changing a C project to a C++ project as simple as including the related .hpp file This question is related to zmq.hpp fails assertion when attempting to debug as I am not getting any answers.
I have a C project running in visual studio 2010 that works as expected. I created a new project with C++ code taken from the same author of the C project and set the C++ project up the same way as the original C project. The only change I made to the set up is I also included the related .hpp file for the C++ project.
The C++ project builds fine, but fails assertions when it is run. Am I setting the C++ project up correctly, or do I need to do something else?
Update
The C code that works
// C Hello World client
#include <zmq.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main (void)
{
    printf ("Connecting to hello world server...\n");
    void *context = zmq_ctx_new ();
    void *requester = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_REQ);
    zmq_connect (requester, "tcp://localhost:5555");

    int request_nbr;
    for (request_nbr = 0; request_nbr != 10; request_nbr++) {
        char buffer [10];
        printf ("Sending Hello %d...\n", request_nbr);
        zmq_send (requester, "Hello", 5, 0);
        zmq_recv (requester, buffer, 10, 0);
        printf ("Received World %d\n", request_nbr);
    }
    zmq_close (requester);
    zmq_ctx_destroy (context);
    return 0;
}

The C++ code that compiles but fails assertion in zmq.hpp
//
// Hello World client in C++
// Connects REQ socket to tcp://localhost:5555
// Sends "Hello" to server, expects "World" back
//
#include <zmq.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main ()
{
    // Prepare our context and socket
    zmq::context_t context (1);
    zmq::socket_t socket (context, ZMQ_REQ);

    std::cout << "Connecting to hello world server…" << std::endl;
    socket.connect ("tcp://localhost:5555");

    // Do 10 requests, waiting each time for a response
    for (int request_nbr = 0; request_nbr != 10; request_nbr++) {
        zmq::message_t request (6);
        memcpy ((void *) request.data (), "Hello", 5);
        std::cout << "Sending Hello " << request_nbr << "…" << std::endl;
        socket.send (request);

        // Get the reply.
        zmq::message_t reply;
        socket.recv (&reply);
        std::cout << "Received World " << request_nbr << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

The block of code where the assertion is failing in the zmq.hpp header at line 267. The assertion that is failing is the second assertion.
inline explicit context_t (int io_threads_, int max_sockets_ = 1024)
{
    ptr = zmq_ctx_new ();
    if (ptr == NULL)
        throw error_t ();

    int rc = zmq_ctx_set (ptr, ZMQ_IO_THREADS, io_threads_);
    ZMQ_ASSERT (rc == 0);

    rc = zmq_ctx_set (ptr, ZMQ_MAX_SOCKETS, max_sockets_);
    ZMQ_ASSERT (rc == 0);
}

Update 2
For further clarification I delved deeper into the zmq source, it appears that the second line is calling
int zmq_ctx_set (void *ctx_, int option_, int optval_)
{
    if (!ctx_ || !((zmq::ctx_t*) ctx_)->check_tag ()) {
        errno = EFAULT;
        return -1;
    }
return ((zmq::ctx_t*) ctx_)->set (option_, optval_);
}

Which in turn calls
int zmq::ctx_t::set (int option_, int optval_)
{
    int rc = 0;
    if (option_ == ZMQ_MAX_SOCKETS && optval_ >= 1 && optval_ == clipped_maxsocket (optval_)) {
        opt_sync.lock ();
        max_sockets = optval_;
        opt_sync.unlock ();
    }
    else
    if (option_ == ZMQ_IO_THREADS && optval_ >= 0) {
        opt_sync.lock ();
        io_thread_count = optval_;
        opt_sync.unlock ();
    }
    else
    if (option_ == ZMQ_IPV6 && optval_ >= 0) {
       opt_sync.lock ();
       ipv6 = (optval_ != 0);
       opt_sync.unlock ();
    }
    else {
       errno = EINVAL;
       rc = -1;
    }
    return rc;
}

which is failing the first if statement and falls through to the else and returns -1. It appears that the clipped_maxsocket function is not returning 1024 as expected and searching for that function reveals
int clipped_maxsocket(int max_requested)
{
    if (max_requested >= zmq::poller_t::max_fds () && zmq::poller_t::max_fds () != -1)
        max_requested = zmq::poller_t::max_fds () - 1;      // -1 because we need room  for the repear mailbox.

    return max_requested;
}

Update 3
The closest function I could find to the zmq_poller_t::max_fds is i hte poll.cpp file and looks like
int zmq::poll_t::max_fds ()
{
    return -1;
}

I am not sure if the function above is the right one. If it is the error must be somewhere else because the clipped_maxsocket function will return what it is given.

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